TITLE:
Teacher Stress and Coping Strategies—The Struggle to Stay in Control
AUTHORS:
Einar M. Skaalvik, Sidsel Skaalvik
KEYWORDS:
Teacher Stress, Job Demands, Coping Strategies
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.12 No.6,
June
17,
2021
ABSTRACT: This qualitative interview study explored primary and middle school teachers’ perceptions of job demands, how they responded to the demands, and which strategies they used to cope with the demands. The participating teachers reported multiple demands, resulting in high levels of stress and emotional exhaustion. Several of the demands could be traced back to structural and organizational conditions at the schools.The analyses also showed that the teachers used five main strategies to cope with the demands: hard working strategies, recovering strategies, reducing the workload strategies, job crafting strategies, and help seeking strategies.